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Need help with Bottom Turning, please.

Postby waikikikichan » Tue Nov 05, 2019 11:58 am

I need help with Bottom Turning. Don't get me wrong, I know how to bottom turn, it's just here in Shonan, Japan, there is just no room TO bottom turn.

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Photos taken by Ichiroh Sakai on 11/05.
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Re: Need help with Bottom Turning, please.

Postby oldmansurfer » Tue Nov 05, 2019 2:02 pm

Haha well looks to me like something a good sized swell will fix
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Re: Need help with Bottom Turning, please.

Postby dtc » Tue Nov 05, 2019 8:32 pm

That guy in the last photo with his shortboard is in for a treat....
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Re: Need help with Bottom Turning, please.

Postby waikikikichan » Tue Nov 05, 2019 9:29 pm

Most of the people with shortboards, stand in waist high water facing the wave. When the longboarders come at them, they suddenly spin around and throw their chest onto the deck. If not, they lift up the board with both hands and pierce the nose of the shortboard thru the lip of the crashing wave. Sometimes it feels like medieval defenders angling their spears at you as you charge down on your horses
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Re: Need help with Bottom Turning, please.

Postby 312T4 » Wed Nov 06, 2019 12:52 am

When I see pics like these, I don't understand if it's an event, a special day of some sort, or normal random surf day.

Can you please contextualize them?
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Re: Need help with Bottom Turning, please.

Postby waikikikichan » Wed Nov 06, 2019 2:05 am

Normally weekend surf crowd at one of the closest beaches to Tokyo, city to 13.4 million people.
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Re: Need help with Bottom Turning, please.

Postby BoMan » Wed Nov 06, 2019 4:16 am

Love the grommet showin' em how it's done in photo 2. :lol:
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Re: Need help with Bottom Turning, please.

Postby 312T4 » Fri Nov 08, 2019 6:09 am

waikikikichan wrote:Normally weekend surf crowd at one of the closest beaches to Tokyo, city to 13.4 million people.


:shock: :shock: :shock:
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Re: Need help with Bottom Turning, please.

Postby steveylang » Fri Nov 08, 2019 8:03 pm

And I thought First Point was crowded... :lol:
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